System V Release 4.0 versus BSD

[Michael A. Petonic]

In article <2059 at cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:

>For about two years now, every time somebody has mentioned the System V
>versus BSD battle (which was really lost and won years ago), somebody
>else has invariably pointed to the not-yet-here-but-real-soon-now SVR4
>as the panacea.  But most of the general public that's stuck with
>System V has been really stuck with SVR3 (or in some cases SVR2, and in
>one square-case-with-a-floppy, with SVR1).
>
>By the time SVR4 becomes widely available, 4.4BSD and commercial OSs
>derived from it will be becoming available and the debate will begin
>again....And this time around, presumably the as-yet-nonexistent SVR5
>will be the panacea.


So -- what's your point?  I thought this was comp.unix.*questions*,
not comp.unix.religious.wars.

-MikeP